Dinner-pail



(No Model.)

0. H. BAILEY.

DINNER PAIL.

Nb. 414,363. Patented NOV. 5, 1889.

ATTEST INVENTOR:

/ M'M A UNITED STATES PATENT Crricn.

CHARLES HERBERT BAILEY, OF ROCK ISLAND, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGNOR ,TO HIMSELF AND LORENZO S. \VAY, OF LAQVRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

DINNER-PAIL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 414,363, dated November 5, 1889.

Application filed Tune 19, 1889. Serial No. 314,840. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHAR-LES HERBERT BAILEY,a citizen of Canada, residing at Rock Island, in the county of Stanstead and Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dinner-Pails, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a dinner-pail in which drinks may be carried withoutinterfering or in any way coming in contact with the food and be entirely protected from dust or an admixture of anything else. I attain this object in the manner following and as shown in the drawings, where- 1n- Figure 1 is a sectional view in the lines 0c :r of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the dinner-pail, and Fig. 3 a funnel for lilling the liquid-compartment.

Like letters refer to the same parts in the figures. v

The pail and its various parts are made of metal, preferably of tin-plate. The main part Ais'divided into two compartments by the septum or partition a, communication between the two parts being eifected only by the screwtap a. This allows of cleansing the liquidchamber B. Leading from a point near the bottom of the chamberB is the tube C,which terminates at or near the top of the pail in an angular prolongation fitted with the cap 0, which latter is attached to the pail by the chain c. The tube C is for filling and for drinking. The funnel D, Fig. 3, fits into the outer end of tube 0 to facilitate filling. This funnel is contained,when the pail is sold, in the butter-cup E, but when the pail is in use the funnel is left at home. The drinkingcup F, in pails of ordinary construction, covers the butter-cup. An additional tube G is my vent-tube, (hereinafter more fully described) and connects with the interior of the chamber B near its top and may be placed at any desirable point of the circumference of the pail. In the drawings it is shown on the opposite side from the tube C by the side of the knife and fork sheath II, but it may be placed close to the tube C and, if desired, be soldered to it. Its outer opening maybe, as shown, about half-way up the side of the pail, or it may be open on a level with the top of the pail above it, or at any intermediate point, according to its location. In ad- 'dition to the compartments named, I supply the food-dish I and the plates K and L, to be used for pie and the like.

In my dinner-pail the liquid contents of the chamber B may be heated and even boiled when food is in the pail Without moist ening or injuring it, as steam escapes by the bent tube G, relieving pressure at once, and does not come in contact even with the fooddishes, the septum a preventing it.

It is clear that no dust nor other foreign substance can reach the interior of the liquid-chamber B, as in the case where the liquid is contained in an outer pail and foodreceptacles are set into it, as no communica tion is allowed with the outside when the cap 0 is in position, except by the small venttube G.

In drinking from the tube C by suction, or in pouring out the contents, air enters by the vent-tube G and allows a free flow. The tube G gives egress to the contained air in the liquid-chamber when the same is filled by the funnel C.

I do not claim,broadly, the use of separate receptacles for food and drink; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

1 In a dinner-pail, the combination of a chamber for liquids located in the bottom of said pail and provided with an impervious top having an orifice and a screw-cap hermetically closing said orifice, an open tube entering the top of said chamber and extending vertically outside of said pail, and a drinking and filling tube communicating with the lowest part of the liquid-chamber, substantially as described.

2. In adinner-pail, the combination of the main part- A, divided into two compartments separated. by an impervious partition having an orifice closed by a screw-cap forming a Intestimony whereof Iaffix my signature in liquid-chamber located in the bottom of said presence of two Witnesses.

pail and provided with a drinking and filling tube communicating With the lowest part of CHARLES HERBERT BAILEY. the liquid-chamber, the removable food-dish V I I, and removable plates K and L, located in \Vitnesses:

the upper part of said pail, substantially as A. K. DARLING,

and for the purposes set forth. D. H. DAVIS; 

